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Oklahoma Higher Education's Campus E-Clips Newsletter - January 2006
http://www.okhighered.org/newsletter/Archives/index-011806.html[8/20/2013 3:12:24 PM]
IN OTHER NEWS JANUARY 18, 2006 EVENTS
NWOSU farm manager
receives state
agriculture award
OPSU alliance increases
college awareness
OSU-OKC certifies first
students nationwide as
child passenger safety
technicians
ExxonMobil gives $5
million for OU
engineering facility
Former SWOSU
president honored on
96th birthday
Funding issues highlight State Regents'
legislative agenda
Additional funding in key areas heads the list of priorities for the 2006
legislative session, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have
announced.
The State Regents recently adopted their annual legislative agenda that
will guide them in discussions with legislative leaders this spring. Read
more.
ECU professor proposes new national park
An East Central University professor has
created quite a stir in Michigan with his
proposal to create that state’s first national
recreation area, a 4,000-acre park that would
link 17 lakes in two counties. Read more.
UCO named official training site for U.S.
Paralympics
The University of Central Oklahoma is celebrating its new status as an
official training site for U.S. Paralympic athletes/Community Partner with
the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
As a Paralympic training site, UCO expects to attract elite athletes from
throughout the country to the UCO campus for training in a variety of
events. Read more.
Redlands student is dedicated to working with
adopted horses
Redlands Community College student Cody
Killingsworth believes that it’s always good to help
those who are in need. Killingsworth’s desire to help
those in need, however, extends beyond helping his
fellow man, to helping animals that are in need, most
specifically, horses.
Killingsworth, who currently owns 11 horses, has
dedicated himself to adopting wild mustangs that are in
need of a good home. Read more.
NSU professor joins Cornell research team to
rediscover 'extinct' woodpecker species
For more than 60 years the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker of North America
was thought to be extinct. But in 2004, thanks to the help of audio
recordings and one actual sighting, researchers have found just enough
evidence to prove that the world’s third largest woodpecker, though
elusive, is very much alive.
This past December, Dr. Mia Revels, associate professor of biology at
Northeastern State University, joined fellow members from the Cornell Lab
Jan. 24 - Opera star
Leona Mitchell appearing
at UCO
Jan. 31 - 'Rain' coming to
SWOSU
Feb. 21 - Rose State hosts
student inventors fair
OSU-Tulsa presents
'Unseen Cinema'
CAMPUS
NEWS LINKS*
PHOTO
GALLERY
Ardmore H.E.C.*
Cameron*
Carl Albert
Connors
East Central*
Eastern Oklahoma
Langston
Murray
NEO A&M
Northeastern*
Northern
Northwestern*
OCCC*
OPSU*
OSRHE*
OSU*
OSU-CHS*
OSUIT, Okmulgee*
OSU-OKC*
OSU-Tulsa*
OU*
OUHSC*
Redlands
Rogers*
Rose State*
Seminole
Southeastern*
SWOSU*
TCC*
UCO
USAO*
Western
Westheimer gift
Old seminary

Oklahoma Higher Education's Campus E-Clips Newsletter - January 2006
http://www.okhighered.org/newsletter/Archives/index-011806.html[8/20/2013 3:12:24 PM]
IN OTHER NEWS JANUARY 18, 2006 EVENTS
NWOSU farm manager
receives state
agriculture award
OPSU alliance increases
college awareness
OSU-OKC certifies first
students nationwide as
child passenger safety
technicians
ExxonMobil gives $5
million for OU
engineering facility
Former SWOSU
president honored on
96th birthday
Funding issues highlight State Regents'
legislative agenda
Additional funding in key areas heads the list of priorities for the 2006
legislative session, the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education have
announced.
The State Regents recently adopted their annual legislative agenda that
will guide them in discussions with legislative leaders this spring. Read
more.
ECU professor proposes new national park
An East Central University professor has
created quite a stir in Michigan with his
proposal to create that state’s first national
recreation area, a 4,000-acre park that would
link 17 lakes in two counties. Read more.
UCO named official training site for U.S.
Paralympics
The University of Central Oklahoma is celebrating its new status as an
official training site for U.S. Paralympic athletes/Community Partner with
the United States Olympic Committee (USOC).
As a Paralympic training site, UCO expects to attract elite athletes from
throughout the country to the UCO campus for training in a variety of
events. Read more.
Redlands student is dedicated to working with
adopted horses
Redlands Community College student Cody
Killingsworth believes that it’s always good to help
those who are in need. Killingsworth’s desire to help
those in need, however, extends beyond helping his
fellow man, to helping animals that are in need, most
specifically, horses.
Killingsworth, who currently owns 11 horses, has
dedicated himself to adopting wild mustangs that are in
need of a good home. Read more.
NSU professor joins Cornell research team to
rediscover 'extinct' woodpecker species
For more than 60 years the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker of North America
was thought to be extinct. But in 2004, thanks to the help of audio
recordings and one actual sighting, researchers have found just enough
evidence to prove that the world’s third largest woodpecker, though
elusive, is very much alive.
This past December, Dr. Mia Revels, associate professor of biology at
Northeastern State University, joined fellow members from the Cornell Lab
Jan. 24 - Opera star
Leona Mitchell appearing
at UCO
Jan. 31 - 'Rain' coming to
SWOSU
Feb. 21 - Rose State hosts
student inventors fair
OSU-Tulsa presents
'Unseen Cinema'
CAMPUS
NEWS LINKS*
PHOTO
GALLERY
Ardmore H.E.C.*
Cameron*
Carl Albert
Connors
East Central*
Eastern Oklahoma
Langston
Murray
NEO A&M
Northeastern*
Northern
Northwestern*
OCCC*
OPSU*
OSRHE*
OSU*
OSU-CHS*
OSUIT, Okmulgee*
OSU-OKC*
OSU-Tulsa*
OU*
OUHSC*
Redlands
Rogers*
Rose State*
Seminole
Southeastern*
SWOSU*
TCC*
UCO
USAO*
Western
Westheimer gift
Old seminary